User Control prints or plots the data currently displayed on your screen.
User Control prompts you to specify a print device for your output (from a
list of available printers), and the output is automatically sent to this
printer. With User Control you can:
- Print or plot just a part of the displayed data
- Print or plot all of the displayed data
- Specify the size of the output area on the printed page
- Specify the position of the output on the printed page
- Rotate the output.
If you are using a four-color printer (such as an IBM 3268, IBM 3287, or
IBM 4224), any colors that you see on your screen that the printer does
not have are printed black.
Before you can print or plot with User Control, your system support
personnel need to make the printing and plotting functions available to
you. If these functions are not available, and you try to print from User
Control, the following message is displayed:
Print is not permitted from the current window
In this case, you need the appropriate User Control nickname in a defaults
file. Ask your system support personnel to set this up for you.
If you have scrolled or zoomed the data displayed on your screen, the
printed output is also scrolled or zoomed (or both).
To print from User Control:
- Display data on the screen. To do this, you need an application or
utility, such as the GDDM-PGF Interactive Chart Utility.
- Start User Control. For information about this, see "Starting User
Control" in topic 2.2.2.
- Select "Output" to display the Output menu.
- In the "Name of printer or plotter" field, type the destination name
of your output (see "Output menu fields" in topic 3.5.1.2 if you are
unsure of the name).
- You now have a choice of two different ways of printing:
- You can complete the fields (or leave the defaults) on the
"Output" menu and then select "Print" (PF4). See "Output menu
fields" in topic 3.5.1.2 for information about the fields. This
method gives you good control over the printed output.
- The alternative way of printing is to select "PrintAsIs" (PF10) to
print or plot an output area the same size in character cells as
the display screen. Use this to specify that alphanumerics should
be output. Apart from the printer name, the input fields on the
Output menu are ignored. The output includes any menus (except
for the User Control menu itself) or other alphanumerics contained
in the current GDDM page.
Note: If your device has a graphics cursor capability it can be activated
by User Control. If you are not using a mouse, puck, or stylus, you need
to activate the alphanumerics cursor before entering values into the input
fields. For example:
- On an IBM 3193 activate the cursor by pressing the +CR key
- On an IBM 3472 activate the cursor by pressing the Alt and +CR keys.
Having activated the cursor, use keyboard cursor control keys to move the
cursor.
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